Artist transforms old computer parts and electronics into delicate winged insect sculptures
Legendary Mexican wrestler El Santo never removed his mask until 1984–10 days later he died
Victor Lustig, the smoothest con man in the world, sold the Eiffel Tower–twice
Lavinia Warren’s wedding to Tom Thumb attended by 10,000 in Civil War-era NYC
The Soviet science-academy researcher who invented Tetris received little personal profit
Evidence of a 14,000-year-old settlement found in western Canada
Guy de Maupassant ate lunch at base of the Eiffel Tower everyday so he’d be spared from looking at it
Osamu Tezuka, “father of Manga,” wanted to help Japanese overcome depression over World War II
The last Tasmanian tiger, a much-misunderstood species, died at the Hobart Zoo in 1936 …
1920s Sydney: The opium dealers, cocaine addicts & con artists – back in full colour
